Wikipedia:WikiProject Devon
Welcome to WikiProject Devon
This is a collaboration area and group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of the English county of Devon.
Located in the south west of the United Kingdom, Devon's county town is Exeter and its largest city is Plymouth.
- Scope
- Articles about all subjects related to Devon, with special emphasis on geography (settlements, landmarks, etc.)
- People are included, but not those whose only connection with the county is that they were born or died here.
- Goals
- On a day-to-day basis, keep articles on Devon free from vandalism and ensure that they are not degraded by sub-standard edits. The list of recent changes below shows the edits that have been made recently to articles under this project.
- Improve existing articles by editing them. This includes the addition of new referenced content, copyediting (improvements to style, grammar, layout, spelling, etc.), and dealing with problem tags – see the list here (warning: there are a lot!).
- Identify omissions in the coverage of Devon. Suggestions for new articles can be made on this project's Talk page, but the bold way is to write a new article yourself.
- Identify existing or newly-created articles that should be included in this project and assess them, as described below.
- The ultimate aim is to improve all Devon-related articles towards Featured Article status. This will take a long time, but we work towards it by a gradual process of improvement through these stages: Stub > Start > Class C > Class B > Good Article > Featured Article. Only 5 steps from the most basic entry!
Devon articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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Quality | Importance | ||||||
Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
FA | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 | |||
FL | 4 | 4 | |||||
GA | 1 | 3 | 13 | 20 | 37 | ||
B | 4 | 12 | 21 | 102 | 26 | 165 | |
C | 6 | 18 | 89 | 442 | 22 | 577 | |
Start | 3 | 7 | 148 | 1,763 | 32 | 1,953 | |
Stub | 1 | 7 | 1,643 | 26 | 1,677 | ||
List | 4 | 25 | 66 | 95 | |||
Category | 1 | 9 | 234 | 423 | 667 | ||
Disambig | 1 | 3 | 12 | 16 | |||
File | 1 | 7 | 9 | 17 | |||
Portal | 1 | 1 | |||||
Project | 1 | 3 | 4 | ||||
Template | 26 | 24 | 50 | ||||
NA | 2 | 79 | 107 | 188 | |||
Other | 4 | 4 | |||||
Assessed | 14 | 48 | 320 | 4,395 | 580 | 106 | 5,463 |
Unassessed | 18 | 18 | |||||
Total | 14 | 48 | 320 | 4,395 | 580 | 124 | 5,481 |
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 22,711 | Ω = 5.14 |
New to Wikipedia?
[edit]If you're new to Wikipedia and thinking of becoming an editor – welcome! Here are a few resources that will help get you up to speed on how things work around here.
- "Editing Wikipedia" is a downloadable PDF brochure that gives you a basic introduction to how to edit Wikipedia. You will learn what Wikipedia is and how it works, how to navigate Wikipedia, how and why you should contribute to Wikipedia, important rules that keep Wikipedia reliable, how to edit with VisualEditor and using wiki markup, how to add content, and etiquette for interacting with other contributors.
- Wikipedia:Tutorial is a web-based introduction.
- Help:Getting started provides links to several other resources that are useful to new editors.
- When it all seems too complex, The Teahouse is a friendly place to help new editors become accustomed to Wikipedia culture, ask questions, and develop community relationships.
- The Talk page of this project is the place to ask any questions about editing Devon articles.
- When you've created a user account (see WP:REGISTER for why this is a good idea), feel free to sign our informal list of participants.
Assessment
[edit]- In common with many other WikiProjects, we use a quality assessment of Stub to FA and an importance scale of Low to Top.
- See the table to the right and WikiProject Devon/Assessment for more information.
Guidelines
[edit]This project broadly follows the guidelines of its parent, the UK Geography WikiProject, on how to write about settlements.
Article alerts
[edit]Did you know
- 12 Sep 2024 – Passmore Edwards Centre (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Dumelow (t · c); see discussion
Articles for deletion
- 19 Sep 2024 – List of Fawlty Towers cast members (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Woodensuperman (t · c) was closed as redirect by Star Mississippi (t · c) on 26 Sep 2024; see discussion (5 participants)
Articles to be merged
- 02 Feb 2024 – Deanery of Christianity (Exeter) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Archdeaconry of Exeter by Moriwen (t · c); see discussion
- 02 Feb 2024 – Deanery of Cadbury (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Archdeaconry of Exeter by Moriwen (t · c); see discussion
Articles to be split
- 28 Jun 2024 – Murders of Kate Bushell and Lyn Bryant (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Icaldonta (t · c); see discussion
To do
[edit]A long list of articles with clean-up tags that need fixing is available on Toolforge at clean-up listing for Devon.
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Here are some tasks awaiting attention:
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(Edit the tasklist here)
- Check out wanted images, where your photographs may come in handy!
Also browse the following categories for a list of Devon articles with specific requirements. Please deactivate the relevent parameter in {{WPDevon}} banner on the article's talk page upon resolution:
- Category:Devon articles needing attention for articles in need of a general cleanup such as copy editing or finding sources.
- Category:Devon articles needing expert attention for articles that require specific knowledge for its improvement in which WikiProject Devon members will be more qualified to help.
- Category:Devon articles needing infoboxes: check out Wikipedia:List of infoboxes and use Ctrl+F to find a suitable infobox or copy one from a similar article.
- Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Devon: the category contains instructions on how to help. Please remove {{Image requested}} from the talk page once an image has been added to the article.
New articles
[edit]This list was generated from these rules. Questions and feedback are always welcome! The search is being run daily with the most recent ~14 days of results. Note: Some articles may not be relevant to this project.
Rules | Match log | Results page (for watching) | Last updated: 2024-09-29 20:08 (UTC)
Note: The list display can now be customized by each user. See List display personalization for details.
- J. J. Sudborough (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Shyamal (talk · contribs · new pages (35)) started on 2024-09-29, score: 40
- Draft:Richard Phillips (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) by RichardPhillips0001 (talk · contribs · new pages (1)) started on 2024-09-29, score: 30
- Jane L. Parpart (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by SusunW (talk · contribs · new pages (2)) started on 2024-09-28, score: 30
- HMS Regulus (1785) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Pickersgill-Cunliffe (talk · contribs · new pages (1)) started on 2024-09-26, score: 30
- Newbuildings, Devon (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by GhostOfNoMan (talk · contribs · new pages (8)) started on 2024-09-23, score: 70
- Ettie Ellison-Macartney (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by AdaWoolf (talk · contribs · new pages (8)) started on 2024-09-22, score: 30
- Shambles, Shepton Mallet (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Gricharduk (talk · contribs · new pages (1)) started on 2024-09-21, score: 30
- Frances Griffith (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Richard Nevell (talk · contribs · new pages (1)) started on 2024-09-20, score: 40
- Geoffrey Wareham (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Hursht (talk · contribs · new pages (1)) started on 2024-09-18, score: 40
Recent changes
[edit]List of abbreviations (help):
- D
- Edit made at Wikidata
- r
- Edit flagged by ORES
- N
- New page
- m
- Minor edit
- b
- Bot edit
- (±123)
- Page byte size change
29 September 2024
- diffhist m West Country English 21:09 −86 Jiunaughten talk contribs (Can't really be said to be in one particular location specific enough to be pointed out with coordinates - in particular, the selection of Torquay seems very arbritrary.)
- diffhist Cosmo Jarvis 20:58 −13 Durziil89 talk contribs (Undid revision 1248493346 by 198.137.18.56 (talk) unsourced) Tag: Undo
- diffhist Michael Heseltine 20:38 −1 Maxeto0910 talk contribs (→Retirement: no sentence) Tag: Visual edit
- diffhist Cosmo Jarvis 20:34 +13 198.137.18.56 talk (→Films) Tag: Reverted
- diffhist Tamar–Tavy Estuary 20:19 +307 82.41.88.205 talk (Land ownership by Diocese of Truro) Tag: Visual edit
- diffhist Tamar–Tavy Estuary 20:16 +57 82.41.88.205 talk (Ownership of SSSI) Tag: Visual edit
- diffhist Ben Bradshaw 18:29 −558 Jean-de-Nivelle talk contribs (Quick cleanup per WP:NOPIPE, MOS:DASH.)
- diffhist Buckfast Abbey 17:10 +62 Polly Tunnel talk contribs (Adding short description: "Benedictine monastery in Devon, England", overriding automatically generated description) Tag: Shortdesc helper
- diffhist Ben Green (cricketer) 16:19 0 Ytfc23 talk contribs
- diffhist Exe Estuary 15:46 +2 82.41.88.205 talk (Details about SSSI) Tag: Visual edit
- diffhist Exe Estuary 15:39 +466 82.41.88.205 talk (Land ownership of Exe Estuary SSSI added.) Tag: Visual edit
- diffhist Haldon Forest 15:35 +428 82.41.88.205 talk (Details of why the forest was designated as an SSSI added.) Tag: Visual edit
- diffhist Haldon Forest 15:30 +693 82.41.88.205 talk (Haldon Forest's status as a Site of Special Scientific Interest added.) Tag: Visual edit
- diffhist Merrivale, Devon 15:23 +653 82.41.88.205 talk (Land ownership of Merrivale SSSI added.) Tag: Visual edit
- diffhist John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford 13:55 −3 Rcb1 talk contribs (amend category)
- diffhist Exeter Chiefs 12:54 +63 Adobby15 talk contribs (→Current squad: Adding Will Rigg to the squad) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- diffhist Exeter Chiefs 12:50 +71 Adobby15 talk contribs (→Current squad: Adding Paul Brown-Bampoe to the squad) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- diffhist Hele's School, Exeter 12:02 +11 Jevansen talk contribs (→Notable former pupils)
- diffhist List of people from Exeter 12:01 +11 Jevansen talk contribs (→Born since 1950)
- diffhist Hele's School, Exeter 12:01 +11 Jevansen talk contribs (→Notable former pupils)
- diffhist List of University of Exeter people 11:58 +11 Jevansen talk contribs (→Sports people)
- diffhist m Sir John Duckworth, 1st Baronet 11:52 −5 Onel5969 talk contribs (clean up, typo(s) fixed: nee → née, ’s → 's (3)) Tag: AWB
- diffhist Wolford Chapel 11:29 +47 Fences and windows talk contribs (added Category:Canada–United Kingdom relations using HotCat)
- diffhist Wolford Chapel 11:27 +30 Fences and windows talk contribs (added Category:Chapels in Devon using HotCat)
- diffhist m Ten Tors 11:25 −63 ClueBot NG talk contribs (Reverting possible vandalism by 2A01:CB19:18A:8E00:147E:7B3A:8ABE:9150 to version by Charliethelionking. Report False Positive? Thanks, ClueBot NG. (4347874) (Bot)) Tag: Rollback
- diffhist Ten Tors 11:25 +63 2a01:cb19:18a:8e00:147e:7b3a:8abe:9150 talk Tags: Reverted Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- diffhist Ben Green (cricketer) 10:19 −52 Rugbyfan22 talk contribs (Update)
- diffhist m Devonport High School for Boys 08:54 +129 OwenBlacker talk contribs (→Notable former pupils: Unpipe link to Crown Prosecution Service; fmt refs; fix 1 ref) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile app edit Android app edit App section source
- diffhist Buckfast Tonic Wine 02:57 0 51.7.3.88 talk (→Versions)
- diffhist Buckfast Tonic Wine 02:55 −588 51.7.3.88 talk
- diffhist Buckfast Tonic Wine 02:55 −24 51.7.3.88 talk
- diffhist River Exe 01:27 +42 2a0a:ef40:5:3d01:18c:68fb:fa64:ea3 talk (Corrected the caption for image:ExeEstuaryAtPowderham.jpg which definitely does not show Powderham Castle, but the Belvedere tower, which is simply an outlying building on the Powderham Castle estate.)
- diffhist Ben Bradshaw 00:33 −8 146.199.140.43 talk
28 September 2024
- diffhist Gary Streeter 23:00 +308 Offa29 talk contribs (Not just "nearby", the pre-1997 Plymouth Sutton provided the majority of the voters to the new SW Devon in 1997. Despite the name, the post-1997 Plym. Sutton bore almost no resemblance to the pre-1997 seat, and was in fact mostly comprised of the pre-1997 Plym. Drake.)
- diffhist Wishbone Ash 22:23 +1,139 2601:41:c07f:7500:d0b9:d8c5:b8cf:d7fa talk (→Formation and rise to fame (1969–1980))
- diffhist Talk:Neil Langman 21:19 −1 Jkaharper talk contribs (living = no)
- diffhist Neil Langman 21:19 +346 Jkaharper talk contribs (death + source)
- diffhist East Devon Pebblebed Heaths 21:18 +570 82.41.88.205 talk (Land ownership details added) Tag: Visual edit
- diffhist Tamar–Tavy Estuary 20:59 +759 82.41.88.205 talk (Land ownership information added.) Tag: Visual edit
- diffhist m Sands School 20:05 −28 Bagelfoc talk contribs (Correct reference position for Ofsted references.)
- diffhist m Sands School 20:00 +589 Bagelfoc talk contribs (→References: Add references for 2010, 2013 and 2016 Ofsted reports)
- diffhist Plymouth Parkway F.C. 19:48 −10 Ytfc23 talk contribs (→Records)
Featured content
[edit]See the Featured Content page for some of our content (articles and photos) that has gained recognition within Wikipedia.
Resources
[edit]- A list of relevant books and internet resources. (under construction)
Templates
[edit]This section contains templates used by or applicable to the project. Note that new stub templates should be proposed before creation at WP:WSS/P
Talk page template
[edit]Devon Unassessed | ||||||||||
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All entries of Devon towns and villages should have the above template placed on their talk pages. A list of categories whose articles should be tagged is available at Wikipedia:WikiProject Devon/Categories. Sometimes, you will see a UK geography WikiProject template already there; in these cases, add our template after theirs. You can add the template using the following code:
{{WPDevon|class=|importance=}}
Additional parameters can be added for articles in need of help and when activated will populate the article in its relevant category.
{{WPDevon|class=|importance=|needs-infobox=yes||attention=yes||needs-photo=yes}}
See WPDevon for further examples and details of the suggestions parameter.
Project userbox
[edit]This user participates in WikiProject Devon. |
To add this userbox to your user page use {{User WPDevon}}.
Barnstar
[edit]The WikiProject Devon Barnstar of Merit | ||
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this WikiAward was given to {{subst:PAGENAME}} by ~~~ on ~~~~~ |
To use this barnstar, simply add {{subst:Devon Barnstar|message ~~~~}} to the talk page of the user you wish to reward. Make sure you include a message which indicates why they are receiving the award.
Navigation
[edit]{{Devon}} is placed at the bottom of all the articles linked in the template to help readers "navigate" between the most important articles of Devon.
Categories
[edit]- Category:Devon and numerous sub-categories
Interested in Devon?
[edit]We maintain an informal list of editors interested in Devon. Please feel free to add yourself to the list and to indicate any areas of particular interest. You're not committing yourself to anything!